I know back in the day there was a lot of vpn bullshit and people shooting ranomly an dtaking out big bosses but in reality for the sake of role  playing its a lot harder to kill a madde guy because people will find out possibly target teir family or torture them. Not to mention a gun may not be hard to find but gangster is. to be a trained hit man is what the mafia utilizises what ever happened to the offer for the gun.  A mafiaso might drive a luxury car that when you close the doors you cant hear it ssomething older. hut they may hire hackers to phreak your alarm system if that shit goes off they're tailing out of there. A mafia guy who can get a job done hes been in fights and knows how to handle himself im not saying give every thug and hoodlum gnagster a gun. but its not hard to get one irl especially in america and tthe chances are always therr a mafioso can get whacked but people respect add fear these people and odnt give their locations away so it makes it hard to tail them. what ever happened to the old offerd a gun thing

The current system was designed to curtailed disgruntled ne'er-do-wells signing up and 24 hours later shooting someone.

At least now, you actually have to invest some time to gain the opportunity to do that. 

typically when someone was offered a gun it was by a family, if a family has a armory i believe you can grab a gun from their armory or the CL can give you a gun to bypass the having to do 75 petties to earn one, i could be wrong and if i am i apologize

^ that is right except you can only buy a gun from an armory IF you're goomba or above (And I think you've had to have a gun before?)